15 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, then expanded, smooth, viscid when damp, greyish, dark grey brown at the centre, becoming darker with age, to about 12 cm across Gills Crowded, broad, white then pink Stem White, smooth, base expanded and emerging from a fleshy volval sack Flesh Whitish Smell Earthy Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Frequent Habitat In grasslands, on wood chips, on road verges, in fields with stubble etc Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (13-18) x (8-10) µm2 Edibility Edible but best avoided for fear of confusion with deadly poisonous Amanita species Notes Could be confused several Amanita species, as well as Pluteus petasatus which lacks a volval sack 
15 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
15 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
15 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |